Judging the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimonies Using Retrieval Effort Cues

Autor/inn/en	Gustafsson, Philip U.; Lindholm, Torun; Jönsson, Fredrik U.
Titel	Judging the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimonies Using Retrieval Effort Cues
Quelle	In: Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35 (2021) 5, S.1224-1235 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gustafsson, Philip U.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0888-4080
DOI	10.1002/acp.3854
Schlagwörter	Accuracy; Recall (Psychology); Cues; Evaluative Thinking; Performance Factors; Difficulty Level; Lay People; Police; Transcripts (Written Records); Identification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abberufung; Stichwort; Leistungsindikator; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Laie; Identifikation; Identifizierung
Abstract	Recent research has shown that incorrect statements in eyewitness testimonies contain more cues to effortful memory retrieval than correct statements. In two experiments, we attempted to improve judgments of testimony accuracy by informing participants about these effort cues. Participants read eyewitness testimony transcripts and judged statement accuracy. Performance was above chance in both experiments, but there was only a significant effect of the effort-cue instruction in Experiment 2. In Experiment 1, we also compared judgment accuracy between police detectives, police students and laypersons, and found no significant difference, in contrast to previous studies. Moreover, the current study corroborates previous findings that (a) judging testimony accuracy is a difficult task and (b) people spontaneously rely on effort cues to some extent when judging accuracy. However, a complete reliance on effort cues showed substantially better performance than relying on one's own judgments skills at best, and offered equal performance at worst. (As Provided).
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